Welcome to the January issue of the CAFÉ cup!

Happy New Year from PhotoshopCAFE

Last year was an awesome year of growth for the CAFE and myself. We hit the road with presentations and the booth all over the country. I released 3 new Videos and 4 books. This year will be no exception, there are tons of exciting things about to happen this year, it's going to be an exciting ride!

This issue of CAFE cup introduces you to 2 new books and the latest DVD offering. Next Month, look for an issue packed with Photoshop Tips.

Don't forget the PhotoshopCAFE Design Challenge which ends this Sat. Check out our biggest contest yet, with near $6,000 in prizes including a copy of Creative Suite Premium from Adobe.

Keep your eye on the home page as we are kicking off a new column for Digital Photographers this month. Photographer and trainer, Tim Cooper from Rocky Mountain School of Photography will be contributing some amazing articles.

Tell your friends and get them to sign up on the list, they may just win a prize. Prizes awarded weekly! As always this list will never be shared or sold to slimy spammers. Write to me and let me know what you would like to see in the Newsletter.

CONGRATULATIONS TO LAST MONTHS WINNERS WHO ARE:

Bryan Canavan - Down and Dirty Tricks DVD by Scott Kelby
John Fischle - Down and Dirty Tricks DVD by Scott Kelby
Ray Keeling - Down and Dirty Tricks DVD by Scott Kelby
Natalie Shipp- Down and Dirty Tricks DVD or book by Scott Kelby
David Edmonds - Down and Dirty Tricks DVD or book by Scott Kelby

Prizes Kindly Provided by NAPP and ScottKelbyBooks.com

(If you are a winner you will be contacted my myself and Bruce from NAPP)

Tip: Create a filled layer mask
By default when you create a layer mask its filled with white and reveals the entire layer. Hold down Alt/Option while clicking the Layer Mask Icon in the layers palette. This will fill the mask with black and hide the active layer.

Newest Products Photoshop and Dreamweaver Integration DVD and book

Photoshop and Dreamweaver Integration - Released late Dec 2004. We experienced such a huge response that we were backlogged with orders. The newest DVD is now shipping.

This DVD Rom is designed to teach Photoshop Users how to build awesome websites from scratch with little or no previous experience in web design or Dreamweaver.

This DVD ROM is now shipping check it out now.

 

Design Challenge #5 WIN CREATIVE SITE and MORE! Deadline SAT!

The deadline for the contest is the Saturday! Design a movie poster. This is a totally fun contest and you may just win one of the awesome prizes from Adobe, NAPP, Extensis, Strata, PhotoshopCD, Alienskin, Andromeda, DG USA, DAZ and tons more. There is almost $6,000 worth of prizes up from grabs including Adobe Creative Suite and a NAPP membership! Exclusive at Photoshopcafe.com Ends 15th of Jan. Get your entries in now.

See the details here

Royalty Free Stock Photography for $1.50?

Is it possible to get quality Royalty free stock photos for $1.50? Sure is, check out istockphoto

Open a flattened Version of your PSD.
When you open a layered file in Photoshop, you can choose to open a flattened version instead. Hold down Alt+Ctrl+Shift (Option+Cmd+Shift Mac) while clicking on the file from Photoshop's Open menu. This will only work if you have "Preserve Backward Compatibility" turned on in the preferences (On by default).

New book out now! How to Wow - Photoshop for the Web

Author of the Photoshop WOW books - Jack Davis invited myself and Jan Kabili to write a book in the new "How to Wow " series.

This book is full of cool designs and techniques to make your sites pop with mouth-watering eye candy. Included CD with project files.

See more here

REPORT: PhotoshopCAFE and Colin on the road

Coming UP, these are events that Colin will be at:

Photoshop World Las Vegas (PhotoshopCAFE booth and the Portfolio tour, featuring work from members of PhotoshopCAFE)
PIDE San Diego (Workshops and seminar)

More coming soon!

FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS!
Keep your eye on the home page at photoshopCAFE.com. This month we are kicking off a column on Digital Photography from Tim Cooper (RMSP)

New book out now! Photoshop/ Dreamweaver Integration

If you are familiar with the hugely popular Super Tutorial on building a web site with Photoshop and Dreamweaver, or my book "From Photoshop to Dreamweaver", you will LOVE this book. This is not an update, this is a COMPLETELY NEW BOOK! This is all the stuff I wish I had put in the previous book such as Expanded explanation of slices and tables, frames and iframes, liquid sites, e-commerce, drop down menus and more. This is a FULL COLOR simple to follow guide that will take you through concept to upload of the DreamweaverCAFE site. It is also flexible enough that you can apply the lessons to any site! I wrote this as the book I wish I had when I started designing web sites.

See more here

 

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